The big bang, black holes, space travel and life in other galaxies - this is the stuff of science fiction and the subject of much current speculation and research on the part of astronomers and cosmologists. Back in the Stone Age, men struggled to build calendars using 30-foot high rocks, while the Phoenicians, Moors and Chinese learnt to map the heavens in order to move around the earth and seas. This book shows how man's chronological needs pulled scientific developments along and helped generate the geometrical and mathematical principles in operation today.
- ISBN10 0006861776
- ISBN13 9780006861775
- Publish Date 7 February 1994
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 January 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Imprint Fontana Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 512
- Language English
- URL http://harpercollins.co.uk